Speed hacking, plane clipping bots are killing my frame-rate!

rfpalmerb16_ESO

So I narrowed down what is killing my frame rate. At times it would drop 50% to 70% for no apparent reason. Please keep in mind that I have 2 R9 290x 4GB video cards -- so I shouldn't have any frame rate issues on medium settings. None the less I would watch my frame rate drop, then come back up again after a bit.

It took a piece of luck for me to find out why, just as my frame rate started to plummet (from my V-sync locked rate of 60 fps) to 15 fps I noticed a little character go popping through some hills in front of me and stop beneath some cornflowers and harvest them. Yes a bot, using a speed and clipping hack had blew my frame rate down -- as soon as he left the screen my frame-rate shot back up.

So I waited around that resource area for a little while and my frame-rate started to tank again, and sure enough -- between those hills where the clipping is a bit off, i saw a bot (the same on?) go flying by.

I kept playing and watching my frame rate and sure enough, when a speed-hacking or clipping bot would go by, my frame-rate would dive.

So the question is -- is there anything I can do about it?

LameoveR

Speed hacking, plane clipping, weather conditions, moon cycles and solar flares are killing my framerate. Sure enough.

redwoodtreesprite

It's not surprising. The bot infestation has messed up a lot of things in this game. I have noticed my game gets bad lag when I am in areas where I know there are a lot of gathering bots.

I suggest you do a video if you can, making sure the name of those poor bots are not showing. Put it on Utube where it can be seen even when the thread with it gets closed.

Other than what one would do anyway to improve game performance when an MMO gets choppy, I suspect there is nothing you can do.

Jim_McMasterub17_ESO

LameoveR wrote: »

Speed hacking, plane clipping, weather conditions, moon cycles and solar flares are killing my framerate. Sure enough.

@lameover Aside from your name, is there some purpose for you trolling people's threads that have issues this morning?

SirAndy

The bots have gone underground since ZOS started employing GMs in the field.
I bet when you see one, there's probably another 50 around you don't see.

If you wait next to a resource, you can now see their heads pop up from underground for a second while they harvest the node, then they're off to the next one.

Seravi

Yeah I can confirm they do cause major lag. There is a dungeon in Deshaan I cannot do because of the lag. There are on average 40+ bots flooding in there non stop. Others have reported the lag in there as well. They are underground and in the air. Sat in Glenumbra today watching them fly through the air one after another non stop. They also come in the buildings zip through all the containers and zip out through the walls.

Windshadow_ESO

To the tune of
"all I want for Xmas are my two front teeth"

All I want for summer are for the bots to die!

AbraCadabra

Even though I know a lot of people hate the use of addons, FastReport is great for targeting those underground bots and reporting them.

Seravi

Well something is quite odd now. I reported a few at K Roost and I have not seen the first hack bot in over two hours. Nothing goes poof before my eyes, no one is flying in the air and no one is zipping through buildings. Not sure if they went in and banned them or the bots got tired and took a break.. who knows....

rfpalmerb16_ESO

Seravi wrote: »

Well something is quite odd now. I reported a few at K Roost and I have not seen the first hack bot in over two hours. Nothing goes poof before my eyes, no one is flying in the air and no one is zipping through buildings. Not sure if they went in and banned them or the bots got tired and took a break.. who knows....

Many bots have been logging off during prime-time to avoid being seen and reported. It's much worse in the mornings or late at night than during prime-time.

Evandus

Yeah, it's very hard to play in some bot heavy areas today. The FPS drop can be a killer.